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Natural History & Science

Dive into the world of natural history and science with our rare book collection. Connect with Earth's past, bridge generations of knowledge, and elevate your understanding. Discover wonders that have shaped our understanding of the universe.

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  • Dessins Originaux Chinois.

    CHINESE SCHOOL
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    A rich multi-volume collection of exceptionally fine Chinese watercolours. With an outstanding variety in subject matter, the collection exhibits ...

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  • Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel.

    SPALOWSKY, Joachim Johann Nepomuk Anton.
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    Luxurious copy with original watercolours. Unique copy of one of the rarest works of zoological book illustration, from the library of the banker, ...

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  • Nicolai Josephi selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia

    JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von.
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    Possibly one of the last copies in private hands. The truly spectacular 'deluxe' second edition of Jacquin's Plants of the Americas from the celebr...

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  • Monograph of the Trochilidae, or a family of humming birds.

    GOULD, John.
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    With the rare supplement. Gould's masterpiece ... an incomparable catalogue and compendium of beauties (Fine Bird Books).Of all the bird families, ...

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  • The Birds of Great Britain.

    GOULD, John.
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    John Gould's most popular and perhaps finest work, and his first collaborative work with Josef Wolf. The German natural history painter Josef Wolf...

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  • Pomologie francaise.

    POITEAU, Pierre-Antoine.
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    One of the most magnificent of fruit books. Sandra Raphael notes that 'from 1807 to 1835 a new edition of Duhamel's Trait des Arbres frutiers, exp...

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  • Rosa parvi-flora.

    REDOUTE, Pierre Joseph.
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    A gift from King Charles X to the Duchesse de Berry. a beautiful example of the work of 'the Raphael of flowers', the most celebrated botanical art...

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  • Iconographie du genre camellia

    BERLÈSE Abbé Lorenzo.
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    An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Loren...

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  • Plantae Selectae

    TREW, Christoph Jakob.
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    One of the greatest eighteenth-century botanical books, with 100 fine hand-coloured plates after paintings by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Georg Dionys...

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  • Zoologia Britannica

    PENNANT, Thomas.
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    The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...

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  • The Universal Conchologist,

    MARTYN, Thomas.
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    The 'South Seas' issue of Thomas Martyn's (d.1811) richly illustrated The Universal Conchologist, comprising 80 hand-coloured engravings of shells...

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  • Papillons Exotiques

    CRAMER, Pieter; STOLL, Caspar.
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    This important history of entomology, abundantly described and beautifully illustrated, is the first book on exotic butterflies using the new syst...

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  • [Set of Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Mathematical Treatises]:

    AVOGADRO, Amadeo; BELLANI, Angelo [et al]; CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis; LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie; MONGE, Gaspard; PRONY, Gaspard de.
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    An attractive set of nineteenth-century scientific and mathematical treatises, bound to match.I) First edition of Avogadro's magnum opus, containi...

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  • Group of Nine Amaryllis

    REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph.
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    The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of botanical illustration ever to be publis...

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  • A Group of twelve Aloes in decorative pots.

    WEINMANN, Johann
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    An attractive collection of fine botanical mezzotints by Weinmann, one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Rege...

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  • White rose with other flowers. Floral watercolour on vellum.

    REDOUTE, P[ierre] J[oseph].
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    A beautiful watercolour on vellum by the greatest flower painter of all time.Belgian born Redouté (1759-1840) achieved success as a painter workin...

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